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The Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Railroad (YMSPRR) is a historic 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railway with two operating steam locomotives located near Fish Camp, California, in the Sierra National Forest near the southern entrance to Yosemite National Park. [1]
This 400E locomotive from the early ’30s sold for a whopping $250,000 in 2016. But there’s good news: you can buy a similar one online for a fraction of the price.Its rarity, condition, and ...
The museum features 21 restored locomotives and railroad cars, some dating back to 1862. The "Sierra Scene" shows a large scale mockup of a construction scene high in the Sierra Nevada representing Donner Pass c. 1867, featuring the locomotive Gov. Stanford.
Pages in category "Preserved steam locomotives of California" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Southern Pacific 4294 is a class "AC-12" 4-8-8-2 cab-forward–type steam locomotive that was owned and operated by the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in March 1944 and was used hauling SP's trains over the Sierra Nevada, often working on Donner Pass in California.
Gold Bond of the Sierra Railway Company of California, issued 15 September 1904 Two Sierra diesel locomotives. SRR #3 and #8, November 1979 SRR Shay #2 with an excursion train at Montezuma, California, 1979. The Sierra Railroad Corporation is a privately owned common carrier.
The Central California Traction Company was incorporated on August 7, 1905. [2] Streetcar service began on March 3, 1906 with nine miles (14 km) of trackage in Stockton. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The company also had greater ambitions and became an electric interurban railway, [ 5 ] opening a line from Stockton to Lodi starting on September 2, 1907.
British-built locomotives were exported around the world, especially to the British Empire. With the almost total disappearance of British industrial railways, the shrinking of the export market and much reduced demand from Britain's railways, few British locomotive builders survive.